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The Defeat of Immigration Reform in the U.S. – Now What?
Some weeks after the U.S. Senate failed to muster the necessary votes to deal with America’s immigration challenges, a clearer picture is emerging of what happened and what needs to happen next. Atlantic has supported The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and a number of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Gautengers open arms to displaced foreigners
by BONILE NGQIYAZA The African Development Forum has succeeded in reintegrating more than a thousand displaced migrants into communities since Gauteng’s last refugee camps closed in October. Ivory Park, Tsakane’s Extension 10, and Alexandra, north-east of Joburg, which were flashpoints during the xenophobic attacks, are…
Author: The Star (South Africa)
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75% support non-EU workers' right to bring family into State
A STRONG majority of people in Ireland believe that non-EU workers here on a work permit should be able to bring their families to live here with them, and that their family members should be allowed to work here, according to polls conducted by Red…
Author: Sunday Tribune
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ICE Raids a Hot Issue for Next Presidency
by ALBOR RUIZ YOU WOULD’VE thought the dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in full battle gear that descended on Laurel, Miss., Monday had found Osama Bin Laden. That, though, was not the case. It turns out that their mission was much easier and…
Author: NY Newsday
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UNHCR urged to probe SA body's 'failure to aid refugees'
by NATASHA JOSEPH ANGRY civil society groups have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to launch a commission of inquiry into its Pretoria office which, they say, failed to “meet its mandate to protect refugees and displaced people” following xenophobic attacks that…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Original Source By Aaron Bray, Staff Reporter This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the…
Author: Yale Daily News
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
by Aaron Bray This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the state Freedom of Information…
Author: Yale Daily News
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic’s 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Seething beneath the surface
University of the Witwatersrand is an Atlantic grantee. By Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw. It has been 18 months since the violent xenophobic attacks broke out across the country. Monako Dibetle and Mandy Rossouw talked to foreigners from across Southern Africa, locals and experts and…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online